Architecture and spectacle
Subtitle: a critique
By: by Gevork Hartoonian
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, UK, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9781409422938
Subjects: Aesthetics; Themes, motives; Modern Architecture; Architecture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The crisis of the object; title: Theatricality : the structure of tectonic; title: Peter Eisenman : in search of degree zero architecture; title: Bernard Tschumi : return of the object; title: Rem Koolhaas : exuberant object of delight; title: Zaha Hadid : proun without a cause!; title: Frank Gehry : roofing, wrapping, and wrapping the roof; title: Steven Holl : fabrication detailed; title: Surface : a-tectonic of roofing and wrapping; title: Afterword.